17TH/18TH CENTURY

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A RARE CHAMPLEVE ENAMEL FIGURE OF A COCKEREL
17TH/18TH CENTURY
Shown standing atop a gilt-bronze hexagonal base textured in imitation of earth and surrounded by a blue-enamelled balustrade, the head with its red comb and wattles and the further rows of feathers of the neck made in overlapping sections, which overlap the separately made wings and individual narrow blue feathers that flank the base of the individual multi-colored tail feathers
10 in. (25.4 cm.) long

Provenance

Spink & Son, London, 1996.

Lot Essay

No other bird of this type, with the feathers not only in champlevé enamel but constructed in the same unusual fashion, with feathers individually made in order to more realistically depict the feathers, appears to have been published.

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